--- title: Tarantulas are mostly gentle; their bite is usually no worse than a… — Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites · tree and pragmatics description: Tarantulas are mostly gentle; their bite is usually no worse than a bee sting, and some flick itchy hairs to defend themselves. Who acts: Tarantulas, bite, some. A sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/) / 11 # Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites, sentence 11 Tarantulas are mostly gentle; their bite is usually no worse than a bee sting, and some flick itchy hairs to defend themselves. **Who acts:** Tarantulas, bite, some · **What happens:** be, not be, flick, defend, bite · **To what, where:** itchy hairs, hairs This is a sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tarantulas, bite, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites.lesson:11 # text = Tarantulas are mostly gentle; their bite is usually no worse than a bee sting, and some flick itchy hairs to defend themselves. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Tarantulas tarantula NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 usually usually ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 no no ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Neg 11 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 parataxis _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 some some PRON DT PronType=Ind 19 nsubj _ _ 19 flick flick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 20 itchy itchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 defend defend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 24 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Tarantulas | | | | | gentle, mostly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | Tarantulas's bite | | | | | than a bee sting; bad, usually *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **flick** | infinitive | some | itchy hairs | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | | 4 | **defend** | to-infinitive | some *not said here* | hairs *= hair* | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary | | 5 | **bite** | | Tarantulas *= tarantula* | | | | | | nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites.lesson:11`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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